1st Edition

Historical Materialism (Routledge Revivals) A System of Sociology

By Nikolai Bukharin Copyright 2011
322 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials, expands upon Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism. Offering a Marxist interpretation of sociology, this reissue is important not only from a sociological and economic perspective, but is also... Read more

1. Cause and Purpose in the Social Sciences (Causation and Teleology)  2. Determinism and Indeterminism (Necessity and Free Will)  3. Dialectic Materialism  4. Society  5. The Equilibrium Between Society and Nature  6. The Equilibrium Between the Elements of Society  7. Disturbance and Readjustment of Social Equilibrium  8. The Classes and the Class Struggle

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Nikolai Bukharin